{"id":180943,"date":"2026-02-17T02:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180943\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T02:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:35:16","slug":"cal-fire-other-agencies-working-to-rescue-2-people-in-the-water-in-santa-cruz-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180943\/","title":{"rendered":"CAL FIRE, other agencies working to rescue 2 people in the water in Santa Cruz County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Two rafters were rescued Monday from a remote bank along the San Lorenzo River in Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The rafters, a man and woman, became stranded following an accident along the river, with no nearby road or trail access, according to Cal Fire. The woman, in her 50s, suffered a moderate injury and as of 3:15 p.m. was being carried out by rescue crews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The pair were tracked down via a coordinated search after they called 911. Felton firefighters hiked through rough terrain to reach them on the opposite side of the river, Cal Fire said on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Rescue swimmers with California State Parks then brought them safely across the river.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;When the river runs high, the conditions change from a relaxing float to a high-stakes environment,&#8221; Cal Fire posted on X. &#8220;Leave the high-flow navigation to the professionals with the dry suits and specialized training.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Agencies involved in the rescue effort included CAL FIRE, Santa Cruz County Fire Department, Felton Fire Protection District, California State Parks, and American Medical Rescue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two rafters were rescued Monday from a remote bank along the San Lorenzo River in Henry Cowell Redwoods&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[85570,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-180943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-85570","9":"tag-san-francisco","10":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","11":"tag-san-francisco-news","12":"tag-sf","13":"tag-sf-headlines","14":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}